Will be here also trying to drum up support for statehood. And chris and tom sherwood will be in cleveland all week to cover the convention. You can look for thur live their live reports this afternoon. Time for weather and traffic on the 1s. Chuck bell is standing by with more on the slight relief from the heat. Ill take whatever we can get. Well take a little break today. There are fewer storms to worry about as well. Those are all in the positive column as well. Tomorrow is the nicest day for the week before we get in the cooker for the weekend. All shows thundershowers yesterday, its a nice, raincooled morning. Fewer storms today, thats good news. The weekend looks like its going to be an ugly stretch of hot weather. Now here are those thunderstorms, in frostburg, not severe. Todays highs up in the upper 80s to 90 degrees. Be ready for that. Jack taylor, good morning to you. In northeast, weve got a new problem. Weve got a reported problem near burroughs avenue. University boulevard at i495. Volume still light. Route 17, right lane blocked, this is bridge deck work. Its southbound on 95. They may hang out there until 5 00, 6 00 in the on bethesda, river road may be blocked from debris. Ill have more next report. Live desk. Lockdown still in effect overnight at one pennsylvania prison. This is a county prison in wilkesbarre Officials Saying this is a result of a confrontation between the two. The prisoners name, tracie gillamb. This morning, were seeing why a university of Maryland Police officer is suspended. He pepper sprayed students while breaking up a party back in may. The officer shouts spray only after using it. Pop ple people start running. Officers arrested two students. And then he sprays it again where medic are treating people. Today, montgomery will hold a town hall meeting addressing the recent shootings in dallas, louisiana, and minnesota. The goal is for residents and police to have open and honest discussions. Videotaped shootings are reignited conversations. The shooting deaths of eight Police Officers in the last two weeks also impact policing. Tonights meeting is for everyone. But ultimately at the end of the day, we want every voice heard. Those who are from not just the black community but from the white community, from the asian community, from latino community, please come out, help us make a good situation in tonights meeting is at 7 00 p. M. At the Silver Spring civic building on veterans place. Investigators are releasing surveillance photos showing the gunman as he tries to carry out that attack on monday. Gavin long snuck up behind officers and shot them at close range. Three died and three others were hurt. The attack ended when a s. W. A. T. Officer shot and killed him from 100 yards away. The people who care for Arlington National cemetery are going on strike. 30 Union Workers are walking off the job today after negotiations fell through with two private companies contracted to oversee the grounds. Currently, they are paid 13 an hour. Maryland is suing volkswagen for breaking the environmental laws. Several states are announcing a civil lawsuit against the auto company. They say vw defrauded regulators. The new civil lawsuit is in addition to vws 14 billion settlement with the justice department. Another north korean rocket launch. South korea is accusing the north of firing three Ballistic Missiles this morning. They all crashed in the sea. Two of them traveled far enough to hit any spot in south korea. Military officials are trying to figure out how much the other one went. It is an apparent protest of the advanced Missile System that they are working on right now. New developments and a attack on a train in germany. An axewielding afghan teenager shouted god as he attacked passengers on a train right outside of frankfurt. The 17yearold was shot and killed by police. He did injure several people. They did find an isis flag in his room. Im back to you. That train attack comes days after a driver rammed a truck into a crowd celebrating bastille day in nice, france. Today, the final section of the promenade where 84 people were killed is back open to traffic. Makeshift memorial for victims was removed last night. Three americans are among the dead. More than a dozen victims have not been identified. The fight over Voting Rights pick up in virginia. Democrats plan to rally this morning. The rally is happening at Virginia Supreme Court as the court meets on the controversial issue. Some republicans are challenging the governors order. They say rights restoration must be done on a casebycase basis. Theres only day two of the Republican National convention. Theres more to talk about. More on the plagiarism claims of Melania Trump. And a cold front is moving in but that doesnt necessarily mean you need to layer up. A look at what to wear. Ohat forecast when we cme back. Ohat forecast when we cme back. Lifes sharing a meal. And a kitchen with room for everyone. And get 15 back at the ikea kitchen event. Lifes sharing a meal. And a kitchen with room for everyone. And get 15 back at the ikea kitchen event. The video you are about to see is tough to watch. You can see a 95yearold woman walking with her cane near a Shopping Mall in memphis, suddenly a man grabs her purse and drags her several people. The woman was not critically injured and police are looking for the man in the video. Storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell is back in helping us figure out what to wear on this warm day. Not a bad looking day outside. Were dealing with a couple of showers out here in the mountains of West Virginia here. Up near keyser, West Virginia. Could bring a two. All youll need today compared to yesterday, just a small umbrella. You also need those sunglasses as well. Its going to be another shorts and tshirtstype of day. Temperatures near 90s this afternoon. Already thinking about the beaches. Wednesday, thursday, friday, look good. On the weekend, things are looking toasty indeed. Today, near 90 degrees. Nicer weather tomorrow. More about all that from your exclusive tenday forecast. Lets good to jack to find out whats going on at river road. Unfortunately, weve got debris across the roadway. Youre going to find yourself rerouted in the area. Progress being made on rock creek parkway. Down at the kennedy center, traffic is flowing in each direction. Now with the work zone, the northbound lanes are basically in buoy, paving project has just the right lane getting by. This is eastbound, traffic will be light even if they do stick around through the morning rush hour. Back to you. Taking action against zika, what one Northern Virginia community is doing with the hopes of preventing of keeping you and your loved ones from getting the virus. Our coverage of the Republican National convention continues. Were live in cleveland in just minutes with the latest controversy as well as a new outlook on the candidates by certain voters. Your time right now is 4 43. No less than a rock star entrance for the republican partys presumptive nominee. Donald trump walked on to the stage last night through a foggy haze of bright lights with queens we are the champions playing. We go with more on Melania Trumps speech. Tracie, good morning. Reporter good morning, aaron. How closely that speech mirrored parts of Michelle Obamas speech in 2008 in some areas almost word for word. How did that happen . Reaction this morning from the Trump Campaign. In a staple, they are saying in writing her beautiful speech, melanias team of of writers took notes on her lives spoirgses and in some stances reflected her own thinking. That seems to confrontation contradict what she told nbc today. She said she had very little help. Lots of questions will be pressed upon the Trump Campaign today. First of all, who wrote the speech, the passages, you have to ear them, they are similar. 22 out of 26 words in one lane were exactly the same. Tracie, i want to ask you, i was watching coverage yesterday when the colorado delegation walked off the arena floor there. A lot of unrest at one point in the afternoon. Any talk about more of that happening in the day or days ahead . Not necessarily. I mean, this was sort of their last stance to try to change the rules so that people didnt have to vote for donald trump if they came from states that did. The problem here was that they thought they had enough states that, but despite those loud boos and cheers that you heard, the chair said, no, in my opinion, it seems like we can go forward and people were very upset with that. Today, he will get the formal nomination. Its unclear if well see anything like we saw like that ruckus we saw on the floor yesterday. The convention could give donald trump another chance to connect with women voters who will be a big factor in the president ial election in cleveland yesterday, news 4 Chris Lawrence spoke with the men who said they dont like some of the comments trump makes but they arent looking at the big picture. Hes a family man. Hes raised kids that are successful and good people and i think that shows a lot about somebody. Nbc news political analysts say the decisions to have Melania Trump speak on the first night of the convention was strategic. She described trump as a loyal husband, father, and more empathetic than he appears. Her speech again as weve been mentioning this morning is tainted by the accusations of plagiarism. Now, back to the tragedy in dallas. Today is the funeral for Police Officer michael krol he was one of five officers killed during last weeks ambush on police in dallas. That service will be in redford township in michigan. His family says he always wanted to be a cop. People in one rockville neighborhood are calling for changes at a deadly intersection where two bicyclists have died in last than a year. Turkey Branch Parkway and veers mill road. Police say this man was crossing in the area of the crosswalk, that is the same crosswalk where killed in december. There needs to be a speed limit change or a rlt there. Friends have placed a white bike to remind people of the drgses there and to honor their friend. Thousands of artifacts from the 9 11 terror attack will soon have new homes. For the last 14 years, 2,500 hundreds of debris have been kept in a hangar at jfk airport. A special ceremony is happening today. They will be displayed at smaller 9 11 memorandum orlts. A person in utah has contracted the vaek virus and officials dont know how. The patient contracted the virus while traveling abroad. He died in june. The cdc is trying to figure out how the from the patient to a caregiver. The caregiver has recovered. Until now, officials believed zika could only be transmitted sexually or by mosquito. Tonight, there will be a meeting about the zika virus. They will be talking about preventing breeding sites. Zika may be closer than you think. In the asiantype mosquito is down here in Northern Virginia has the potential to spread zika. The meeting is at 7 00 p. M. In the Herndon Council chambers on lynn street. If your kids are looking for some cool spots to cool off during this heat wave, they can head over to one of d. C. s 13 spray parks. They are staying open an extra two hours this week until 9 00 p. M. Open our nbc washingtonpp i bet you those parks have been packed. The one in my neighborhood near shaw always full, full, full. Only for kids . No, you can go to the spray park. Just be mind of the mind of the people around you. Dont be pushing kids around i would never. Well, maybe once. Its going to be another good pool day today. Plenty of sunshine. Youll be out there taking in some rays and outside right now skies have cleared out after the round of thunderstorms late yesterday. 73 now at national airport. Just a couple of clouds around. Not any rain here in the immediate metro area. Ill show you radar here in a second. There are showers out in i81. Temperatures back down into the low and mid 70s. That feels nice. That big cluster of storms we dealt with late yesterday, North Carolina and off the virginia coastline. A couple of rumbles of thunder out here near frostburg, romney, West Virginia. Those showers will fade away but we couldnt rule out between now and 7 00 a. M. , a couple of showers northern parts of loudon county, montgomery, each fairasm as these things fall apart. Later today, future weather at 3 00, most of area will be missed today. Better chance, 30 chance of today is highest down across Northern Neck and southern maryland. 30 south of Washington Area and if you dont find that umbrella, youll probably get away with it. Heading down to the nationals and dodgers game today, it starts at 7 80s. Tomorrow looks way nicer than today. Full sunshine. Tomorrows highs only in the mid to upper 80s with nice low humidity tomorrow. Enjoy it. Tomorrow will be nice and comfy and sunny. Well be back up to the low 90s on thursday. The real heat, haze, and humidity of summer come roaring back for saturday, sun, and monday. Jack taylor, we may have our first 100 degrees on sunday. Saw triple digits. Thank you very much for that. Weve got a paving project over in virginia 7. Something is blocking river road out here lake potomac drive. Until they get it cleared, river road will be cleared. On the rock creek parkway, the longterm work zone continues. Traffic is getting by one youll have one lane getting by. Single lane gets by both ways rock creek parkway at kennedy center. No worries this morning. Never causes a delay at this hour. We told you about people playing pokemon go being robbed. Now were getting a look at one of the suspects accused of doing just that in our area. The nfl goes high tech. What they are considering putting insi gamede isis now saying that they were behind that attack. German Officials Say an afghan teen wielding an axe hurt at least five people in frankfurt as he shouted god is great in arabic. An isis flag was later found at the teens home. That teenager shot and killed by police. Despite isiss claims, Officials Say its too early to say whether or not this was an act of terrorism. The Fairfax County teenager hurt in an explosion in central park is now out of intensifyive care. Doctors had to amputate some of his foot and left leg. He was given a prosthetic and is taking part in a program to learn to walk again. He is a very strong and resilient young tragedy. He will not let this define who he is. Investigators do not believe the homemade explosive was a firework. Police believe it was made by an explosive hobbyist and not designed to intentionally hurt people. The nypd is offering a 12,000 reward for more information on this case. A new photo to show you. A person of interest in a robbery case connected to pokemon go. We told you about four people, including several students who were robbed at the university of maryland one week ago. Nearly all the victims were playing pokemon go at the time. University police say that someone with a gun took the victims phones. Police put out this photo. They say this is a person of interest. If you think you recognize him, university of Maryland Police would like to hear from you. Maryland is handing out money for innovative ideas on reducing traffic congestion. The state is planning to spend 230 million to improve the one 100 million will come to a private company that can come up with a plan to improve rush hour traffic each day. Its whats the best ideas are. The state says it wont improve any idea that include adding tolls to 270. The nfl may be about to make the extra point a lot more interesting. Its considering making the uprights in the end zone narrower. The league says kickers are more and more successful. The change would make those extra field goals harder to get. They are going to put computer chips in the footballs but only during the preseason. It is 5 00 a. M. Im aaron gilchrist. And im eun yang. Were talking about a slight cooldown after the
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